| trailCameraTrap {datana} | R Documentation |
Contains information of Camera trap data on medium to large terrestrial mammals collected at 54 camera stations in Ruaha National Park, southern Tanzania.
Description
Dataset contains 14604 observations and sampling was carried out for two months during the dry season of 2013 and two months during the wet season of 2014. Each camera station is associated with a randomly placed camera and a trail-based camer, with the aim of comparing communities resulting from the two camera trap placement strategies.
Usage
data(trailCameraTrap)
Format
Contains six variables, as follows:
- reference
Number of observation od datasets.
- placement
Type of "placement" placed in each station (random or trail).
- season
Season where were made the samplings.
- station
Station where were collected the data.
- specie
Name of specie medium to large terrestrial mammals.
- date.time
The date and time of each photographic event is also given.
Source
The data were provided by Dr Jeremy Cusack at Universidad Mayor (Santiago, Chile)
References
- Cusack J, Dickman A, Rowcliffe M, Carbone C, Macdonald D, Coulson T. 2016 . Random versus game trail-based camera trap placement strategy for monitoring terrestrial mammal communities. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126373.
Examples
data(trailCameraTrap)
head(trailCameraTrap)